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The city of Boston has created the Boston Comedy Hall of Fame, of which Steven Wright will be honored as the first inductee, reports new blog Boston Comedy. While there may not be an actual brick and mortar location for this historical hall of hilarity, honorees will be...

Comedian Harland Williams has signed on with TBS to film a pilot wherein he’ll host a 30-minute show called The TBS Comedy Roadshow.
Reuters reports:
[the show] would travel around the country to historically significant regional or vaudeville theaters and use local talent...

British superstar comedian Russell Brand, who just filmed his first hour Comedy Central special, might star in a remake of the 1981 Dudley Moore comedy Arthur. Moore played a drunken lothario set to inherit a fortune.
From the Hollywood Reporter:
Brand is meeting with scribes to...

Last night, CBS broadcast a live special wherein the Grammy nominations for this February’s actual Grammy award show were announced. And of course with the usual music-related nominees, came this year’s nods for Best Comedy Album. The nominees are:
Lewis Black,...

When you think of New Zealand and comedy, what are the first few things that come to mind? Flight of the Conchords for sure, right? Lewis Black has a bit about traveling to the island nation (listen below). But beyond that, there’s not too much. That may all change now,...

Did you think a mom’s only comedic purpose was to provide material for her damaged comedian son/daughter? Guess again!
“Mom’s Night Out” is a trifecta of established female comedians determined to show that motherhood can be balanced with careers in comedy without...

Arthur Hinty is not what you’d consider a well-known comedian. However, he’s got some well known friends, namely Doug Stanhope. A few years ago Stand Up! Records released an album called The Unbookables, taken from a live show hosted and headlined by Stanhope and...